Re-imagining primary healthcare in the light of health data management in Nigeria: the roles of Health Information Management Professionals

Abstract

Quality health data is essential to good healthcare processes and the lack of it might mean poor healthcare. No wonder, the foremost American by birth and later, Australian by advanced practice, Lady Edna Kal Huffman emphasized the essentials of good health data management in her much sought after book Medical Records Management. In her wisdom and scholarly work, Huffman berated poor health data as she opined that it may lead to poor healthcare delivery1. Though late, her works have been revised, reprinted and republished severally. She was indeed our forebear in scholarly works in health information management.